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Rui Ribeir, currently in New York, is a young graphic designer and illustrator. He created Artificial, a small exploratory publication, to question how products and the making process influence our perceptions of realty.

Robert Lindstroem of Designchapel and Mathias Lindgren in Stockholm are working on side project designing and manufacturing Woodbot Pilots, a character derived from a 3D interactive exhibition. Though the toy design is only in the prototyping faze, it's easy to see that these creatures have the potential to be awesome pieces some day.

I've seen many a photo gallery cataloging wardrobe choices, but I like Philadelphia-based designer Danielle Kroll's approach. She's has an ongoing series at her blog with illustrations of various outfits. Love the pattern illustration within the design.

Designer Drew Melton decided he needed an outlet to practice his craft in lettering and typography design. Instead of arbitrarily creating pieces, he knew he wanted to have a purpose to his practice, thus in January of 2011 the Phraseology Project domain was purchased and the challenge begun.

I would be kind of excited for the cable bill to come if I were roommates with San Francisco-based designer Nathan Godding. He creates these typography-based posters as a reminder for his fellow cable-watchers to contribute their share each month.

We love seeing personal projects from designers, and New York-based designer, Raffaella Ciavatta, wrote over to share her take on the "one-a-day" challenge—The Six-Month Project. As a designer, we often box ourselves off into some area of expertise or style, and sometimes it can be difficult to break out of those self-imposed or outside labels.

I was planning on posting one of Jeff Jarvis's typography explorations as an image in the Design.org Inspiration Stream, but when I couldn't choose just one, I realized that they must be shared on the blog! Jeff is a graphic designer living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Nicole Meyer, a designer and art director in Minneapolis, decided that the lake logos needed an update in Minnesota, because "lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly."

She created the Branding 10,000 Lakes project to rethink what they could be with one Minnesota Lake logo every day. At that generous pace the project will take about 27 years to wrap up! Thus far she's at lake 57. Go Nicole Go!